Xie is one of the most successful serial founders in cybersecurity, having built three companies across three decades. At Fortinet he has driven a consistent strategy around purpose-built security silicon (the Security Processing Unit) and a broad, converged Security Fabric spanning network, cloud, OT and SecOps.
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Ken Xie is founder, Chairman and CEO of Fortinet, the publicly traded network security company he co-founded in 2000. Fortinet is one of the largest cybersecurity companies globally by revenue. Xie previously founded NetScreen (acquired by Juniper for $4B) and SIS.
Ken Xie is Founder, Chairman and CEO at Fortinet.
Ken Xie focuses on Network security, SD-WAN, Security hardware/ASIC, OT security, Security fabric.
Ken Xie is based in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Ken Xie is listed in the Founders & CEOs category of Cyber Resources, the curated directory of the cybersecurity marketing and growth ecosystem.
San Francisco, USA
Deepak Gupta is a repeat cybersecurity founder: he built identity platform LoginRadius, which scaled to serve 1B+ end users, and now runs GrackerAI, a Generative Engine Optimization platform for B2B cybersecurity vendors.
Santa Clara, USA
Nikesh Arora has served as Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks since June 2018, driving its transformation into a platform-first security leader with three major pillars: network security, cloud security (Prisma) and AI-driven security operations (Cortex).
San Jose, USA
Jay Chaudhry is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Zscaler, a publicly traded zero-trust cloud security company he founded in 2007. A serial entrepreneur, he previously founded and exited SecureIT, AirDefense, CipherTrust and CoreHarbor.
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